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1 online resource (786) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Customer Feedback; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Configuring Power BI Development Tools; Introduction; Configuring Power BI Desktop options and settings; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; Installing and running Power BI Desktop; Configuring Power BI Desktop options; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; See also; Power BI's advantages over Excel; Power BI Security and Data Source Privacy; Installing the On-Premises Data Gateway; Getting ready; Hardware and network configuration |
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How to do it ... Installation of on-premises gateway; How it works ... ; Gateway recovery key; There's more ... ; See also ... ; Installing Power BI Publisher for Excel; How to do it ... ; Installation of Power BI Publisher for Excel; There's more ... ; Installing and Configuring DAX Studio; How to do it ... ; Installation of DAX Studio; Configuration of DAX Studio; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Guy in a Cube video channel; Chapter 2: Accessing and Retrieving Data; Introduction; Viewing and analyzing M functions; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; Formula Bar; Advanced Editor window; How it works .. |
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Query foldingM query structure; Lazy evaluation; There's more ... ; Partial query folding; Limitations of query folding; See also ... ; M language references; Establishing and managing connections to data sources; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; Isolate data sources from individual queries; Query groups; Manage source credentials and privacy levels; How it works ... ; Data Source settings; Data source privacy settings; There's more ... ; See also; Building source queries for DirectQuery models; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; Applying M transformations with DirectQuery models; How it works .. |
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There's more ... DirectQuery project candidates; DirectQuery performance; See also; Importing data to Power BI Desktop models; How to do it ... ; Denormalize a dimension; Provide automatic sorting; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; One GB dataset limit and Power BI Premium; See also; Applying multiple filtering conditions; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; Query filter example steps; How it works ... ; There's more ... ; Filtering via the Query Editor interface; See also; Choosing columns and column names; How to do it ... ; Identify expensive columns; Select columns; Rename columns; How it works .. |
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Column memory usageThere's more ... ; Fact table column eliminations; Column orders; See also; Transforming and cleansing source data; Getting ready; How to do it ... ; Remove duplicates; Update a column through a join; There's more ... ; See also; Creating custom and conditional columns; How to do it ... ; Create a dynamic banding attribute; Create a formatted name column; Comparing the current and previous rows; How it works ... ; Conditional expression syntax; Case sensitivity; Conditional expression evaluation; Query folding of custom columns; There's more ... ; Add column from example |
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Get more out of Microsoft Power BI turning your data into actionable insights About This Book From connecting to your data sources to developing and deploying immersive, mobile-ready dashboards and visualizations, this book covers it all Over 90 hands-on, technical recipes, tips, and use cases from across the Power BI platform including the Power BI Service and Mobile Applications Proven development techniques and guidance for implementing custom solutions with DAX and M languages Who This Book Is For This book is for BI professionals who wish to enhance their knowledge of Power BI beyond and to enhance the value of the Power BI solutions they deliver to business users. Those who are looking at quick solutions to common problems while using Power BI will also find this book to be a very useful resource .Some experience with Power BI will be useful. What You Will Learn Cleanse, stage, and integrate your data sources with Power BI Abstract data complexities and provide users with intuitive, self-service BI capabilities Build business logic and analysis into your solutions via the DAX programming language and dynamic, dashboard-ready calculations Take advantage of the analytics and predictive capabilities of Power BI Make your solutions more dynamic and user specific and/or defined including use cases of parameters, functions, and row level security Understand the differences and implications of DirectQuery, Live Connections, and Import-Mode Power BI datasets and how to deploy content to the Power BI Service and schedule refreshes Integrate other Microsoft data tools such as Excel and SQL Server Reporting Services into your Power BI solution In Detail Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform consisting of applications and services designed to provide coherent, visual and interactive insights of data. This book will provide thorough, technical examples of using all primary Power BI tools and features as well as demonstrate high impact end-to-end solutions that leverage and integrate these technologies and services. Get familiar with Power BI development tools and services, go deep into the data connectivity and transformation, modeling, visualization and analytical capabilities of Power BI, and see Power BI's functional programming languages of DAX and M come alive to deliver powerful solutions to address common, challenging scenarios in business intelligence. This book will excite and empower you to get more out of Pow .. |
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Business intelligence -- Computer programs
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Information visualization -- Computer programs
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Business -- Data processing.
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Visual analytics.
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Management -- Data processing.
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COMPUTERS -- Data Visualization.
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COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- Business Intelligence Tools.
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COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- General.
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COOKING -- General.
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Management -- Data processing
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Information visualization -- Computer programs
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Business -- Data processing
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Visual analytics
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Electronic book
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1788293789 |
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9781788293785 |
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